MONEY & BANKING


Aditi Jhunjhunwala 22 June 2012
As per RBI guidelines notified on 20th June, only big business houses and corporates would venture into this area. However, these entities need to ensure the safety of the customers and public at large The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had come up with draft White Label ATMs (WLAs)...

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Client-level controls assumes great importance in the common BC model, as without these banks and BCs could lose control of their operations and be exposed to significant costs and risks If there was one major learning (at least for me) from the 2010 Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Indian...

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MDT/PTI 20 June 2012
Fitch said while banks continue to have reasonable customer deposit base, domestic franchises and adequate capital, the NBFCs lack the funding advantage, which puts them more at risk during times of increased market volatility   New Delhi: Ratings agency Fitch on Wednesday cut credit...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 June 2012
The SIDBI (Amendment) Bill, 2012, would streamline procedure for loan recovery and also seek to confer power upon the SIDBI board to specify investment limit for small units   The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) will be able to take speedier action against...

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MDT/PTI 19 June 2012
After a survey of over 3,000 SMEs on their funding patterns, CRISIL has found that 53% of them met their funding needs through promoters' funds and personal loans in FY11   Mumbai: Rating agency CRISIL on Tuesday said a large majority of small and medium enterprise (SME) promoters -...

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MDT/PTI 18 June 2012
Nationalised banks and regional rural banks conceded to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's demand for appointing operational credit societies and other institutions as bank business correspondents   Mumbai: To facilitate flow of pre-monsoon credit to farmers in seven districts in...

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The business correspondent model to financial inclusion can work, but since it transfers various types of risk, responsibility and management compliance to third parties, it requires appropriate regulation and supervision   With the ongoing bidding for the whole of India, the business...

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Winning bids for BC model is at such low prices that it will either fail or service levels will be pathetic. Let’s hope regulators would strictly monitor what is happening on the ground   Something strange is happening in the financial inclusion and business correspondent (BC) space...

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MDT/PTI 14 June 2012
The funds of about Rs12,740 crore do not indicate towards the quantum of the much-debated alleged black money held by Indians in the safe havens of Switzerland   New Delhi: Switzerland on Thursday said the quantum of money held by Indians in Swiss banks stood at 2.18 billion Swiss...

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A banker 12 June 2012
The Department of Financial Services has been overactive in issuing directives. Worse, DFS is resorting to brazen ways of dictating to PSBs to sponsor their proposals to the board and get them approved Notwithstanding the fact of substantial private shareholding in PSBs and the...

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A Banker 11 June 2012
The government wants to hold 51% is PSBs and is inflexible about it. It will soon find out the flip side to this, when asked to put in capital to either maintain this stake or force banks to give up growth   The criticality of operational flexibility and functional autonomy for public...

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MDT/PTI 07 June 2012
Cabinet approved the release of 50% share of the central government for recapitalisation of the remaining 24 RRBs to improve their capital to risk weighted assets ratio   New Delhi: The Indian government on Thursday approved Rs632 crore capital infusion in cash-starved regional rural...

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Due to continued weakness in domestic demand and moderate core inflation Nomura expects a 25 basis points cut at the next RBI policy meeting on 18 June 2012   Brokerage and research firm Nomura has said that there will be an additional 50 basis points cut in repo rate in 2012 (25 basis...

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Banks needs to avoid appointing all and sundry as their business correspondents, just to meet internal or policy targets   The government in India has adopted a very important strategy to try and achieve financial inclusion, using business correspondents (BC) to serve and service...

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MDT/PTI 04 June 2012
According to the RBI deputy governor, rising food inflation and depreciating rupee are the conflicting factors the central bank would consider while deciding on policy rates on 18 June Mumbai: With the economic growth slipping to nine-year low levels, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 May 2012
RBI governor D Subbarao said the matrix of Uttarakhand is probably not very good in terms of number of villages per bank branch   Mussoorie: To expand banking network in hilly areas, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it will consider relaxing policy guidelines to encourage banks to open...

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On most of the significant policy issues—implementation of Basle III, NBFC regulation, gold loan companies, securitisation guidelines, etc, all that we have in the policy are datelines for policies to be announced by the RBI. There is more in the offing than we have in the policy, reducing...

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If SHG version 2 is pushed through without a proper and objective understanding of how the SHG Bank linkage program currently functions at the grass-roots (and the path that it has traversed in the past), it could become a recipe for disaster as has happened with much of Indian microfinance...

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Two crucial aspects in microfinance—client origination/targeting and loan appraisal—have been neglected in favour of unprecedented growth (caused by a desire to fully commercialise microfinance and rapidly enhance access/outreach of such services) and this has resulted in the present crisis

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While there are many contradictions, inconsistencies and subjective interpretations in the CoC assessments which seem to draw the attention away from the real issues, we hope the sponsors and developers of the SIDBI-World Bank COCA tool recognize the fact that it far from being a reliable and...

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